The Adaptive Management and Security System for Maintenance and Teleoperation of Industrial Robots**This work was funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology as part of the R&D program “Information and Communication Technology”.

Abstract

Within the project ”MainTelRob”, we research the opportunity to support maintenance tasks over the Internet. We identified, that this requires a specific combination of services, e.g., video streaming, communication services and data transfer. By using the public Internet emerges the need to transfer all data in a secure and confidential way. However, there is no framework to provide these functionalities out of the box. This is why we developed the Adaptive Management and Security System (AMS), a multi-layer architecture and framework providing the building blocks to create tele-maintenance applications. In addition, the AMS measures the quality of an end-to-end connection over the Internet and adjusts the amount of data sent by the services, in order to use the given connection efficiently. In this publication, we provide a short overview of the state of the art and subsequently explain the architecture, as well as the structure and tasks addressed by each layer. We also provide insight into the first tests, in which a prototype implementation of the AMS was used to teleoperate an industrial robot over the public Internet.